I knit her the Make Believe Crown from Interweave Knits. Its available for free from Knitting Daily now.

This is a super quick and easy knit. But it wasn’t what I started on. Nope.

These are Twinkle Toes from Knitty. Little tiny ballet slippers complete with knitted ties!

The pattern is written in sizes from Toddler to adult, so you can knit your own ballet slippers if you would like. These took no time at all!

Patterns: Make Believe Crown from Interweave Knits and Twinkle Toes from Knitty.
Yarn: Patons Katrina in Blossom. Less than 1 ball. (Thank you to Jane Prater for gifting this yarn to me awhile back!)
Needles: Twinkle Toes: Knit Picks Options in size 5. Crown: Knit Picks Options 5s and Clover DPNs also in 5s.
Sizes made: Toddler and 15″
Started: December 8
Finished: December 9
Thanks to my special model. A doll made by my great-grandmother on my mom’s side!

I think my niece will be adorable in these!

I LOVE this hat! It is cute, but Tattoo Boyfriend could pull it off in a little more manly color!

Butterfly says, “There is a face on the other side of this head!”

My head isn’t lopsided – I swear. Neither is the hat…but it sure looks like it here!!!

Project Details:

Pattern: Koolhaas – Interweave Knits Holiday 2007 Issue

Yarn: Cascade 220 The Heathers – Amethyst Heather (yes, I used the left overs from my Duster and I still have some left)

Needles: US Size 6 Denise and US Size 8 Knitpicks Options Nickle plated (I did not use the dpns instead I magic looped the decrease portion).

Size: Womens (if I had to do it again I would shorten the ribbing just a bit to better bit my head)

Notes: This was an easy, fast knit once I relearned how to read. Seriously. I don’t mean I didn’t read the chart correctly – that was fine. Well, then there is the whole read the key. Yeah. I didn’t do that apparently and got a couple rows in- realized I was stupid – and ripped back and started over. Twice.

Mods: Well, it really isn’t a mod, but I didn’t use a cable needle, I cabled without one which made it faster, I think. This is why I used the Options needles – they are pointy enough to make this easy!